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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 12 2010 - 14:25:28 CST

I'd suggest that you try using the new "measure surface" command
for this, see the docs here:
  http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/vmd-1.8.7/ug/node133.html

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 05:22:34AM -0500, Christine Horejs wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> I have a xyz-file of a coarse-grained protein (one bead per amino acid)
> and I would like to display only those beads, that lie on the surface of
> the protein!
> Is there any way to do that with VMD?
> Thank you so much for any help!
> Christine 

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